In the News
Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are very real’
Yoshua Bengio, winner of the prestigious Turing award for his work on deep learning, is establishing international guidelines for the ethical use of AI.
The Animal-AI Olympics is going to treat AI like a lab rat
The $10,000 competition will test AI with challenges that were originally designed to test animal cognition—to see how close we are to machines that have common sense.
Also in the news this week...
- Google pulls the plug on its AI council, just one week after its launch... More
- ... and launches an "end-to-end" AI platform to train and deploy ML models, but keep in mind that there are specific service terms
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Learning
Smart home, machine learning and discovery
As always, thoughtful and interesting piece by Ben Evans.
Software tools & code
Teaching machines to reason about what they see
Researchers combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques to speed learning and improve transparency.
Some thoughts
MIT is using AI to invent new flavor combinations and foods
... it suggested a shrimp, jelly, and sausage pizza